gradation

Example Sentences

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And there’s a gradation between, because there are people who show up once and then might not show up for the rest of the year.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2023

And we won’t be giving starred reviews — that kind of blunt gradation makes even less sense now than it did before.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2022

For food professionals, who spend their lives exploring nuance and gradation in flavor, recourse is even more limited.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020

The color is richer and the gradation considerably subtler, and, since the restoration is Parajanov’s original cut, the running time is 10 minutes shorter than the Kino version released in 2001.

From New York Times • May 24, 2018

But there is a continuous gradation from triple systems through loose clusters of a few dozen stars to the great globular clusters, resplendent with a million suns.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan